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Jaina Literature and Philosophy
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अगडदत्तचरित्र
Agadadattacaritra No.3
1568.
1891-95. Size.- 7. in. by 47 in. Extent.- 23-3%D20 folios; II lines to a page; 37 letters to
a line. Description.- Country paper thick, tough and greyish in colour ;
Jaina Devanagari characters; legible, bold, big and fairly good hand-writing ; borders ruled in three lines in red ink; even their edges ruled in double red lines; red chalk used for marking the numbers of couplets; foll. numbered in the right-hand margin ; fol. 236 blank; foll. 2, 3 & 8 missing; white chalk used in place of yellow pigment ; condition very good except that edges of some of the foll. are slightly gone; complete; composed in Samvat 1703
in Vairāyara. Age.- Samvat 1732. Author.- Punyanidhāna, pupil of Vimalaüdaya. Subject. - Life of Agadadatta described in Gujarāti in verse in
__metres such as दूहा, चोपई etc. Begins.- fol. I. ऐं नमः । दूहा।
परमेसर धुरि प्रणामि करि । सदगुरु प्रणमि उलास । सरसति पणि प्रणमेव करि । विरचिसि वचनविलास ॥१॥ परमेसर यइ मचल पद । सदगुरु श्रुत सविचार ।
सरसति वचनविलास द्यइ । तिणि तीने ततसार ॥२॥ etc. Ends.-- fol. 23. शालिभद्र छ(घ)ना ऋषिनी परि । जइसई गजसुकुमाली ।
" ॥ २ ॥ सब प्रजुन्न महाऋषि ढंढण । तिम कहइ जाल मयाली। जबू वइरकुमार तणु जस । अवंतीसुकुमाली ॥३॥ १० | अभयकुमार अचल विजयादिक बलभद्र मुनि सुविचारी। ध(?)रमरुची अणगार चिलाती । अनंत अनीक अणहार ॥४॥
__ अ०। बीसे थानक तपस्या तपतौ । बावीस परीसह धारी। अनुक्रमि अणसण पचषि अनोपम । पहूता सरग मझारी ॥५॥ अ. संवत गुण नभ (मुनि) शिस (१७०३) वरसह विजयदशमि ।
दे(दि)न रंगह।
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